893.00/3–1947: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 20—12:01 a.m.]
599. Following is Mukden’s 31, March 12.
“According to NECC57 source, General Tu58 has recently been notified from Nanking that Soviets consent to National Army occupying Dairen now. However, preoccupation of Nationalist forces with new Communist drives of Changchun, Kirin, and Meihoko areas (of which Soviets are presumably well aware) places Tu in dilemma where he apparently cannot spare large enough force to ensure defeat Communist forces in Port Arthur navy base area without seriously weakening his other fronts. Even could he assemble requisite force, his move on Dairen would probably result in Communists escaping to Shantung where Nationalists already hard pressed. Chase.
Sent to Nanking 31; repeated Changchun and Shanghai for Dairen.”